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How do you capture the InDesign cursor ?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
June 19, 2024
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Hi gang,

Sometimes I need to take screenshots of InDesign doing what InDesign does.

How do you click a screenshot so as to get InDesign when it has a "loaded cursor" mouse cursor?

How to

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Mike Witherell

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After laboriously capturing the complicated "loaded text cursor" icon (way too much going on in that icon), I ended up drawing it vector in Illustrator just so I could scale it up at a decent size.

Mike Witherell

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I managed to install a free macOS screenshot software called Snip My. After making a custom shortcut and setting a delay, I managed to get the cursor! Surprising me this is so much hoops to hop through.

I wonder why I cannot do this on a Windows machine?

Mike Witherell

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

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What DOES work (on a Mac) is to capture a VIDEO of your screen. Then you can always grab a single frame out of the video capture.

Mike Witherell

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Yes, Rob. How u do dat?

(I'm currently sitting in front of a Windows 11 machine, btw.)

Mike Witherell

rob day

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I did it with SnapZ Pro by changing the key command to Control-3.

I’m sure that would work with the MacOS capture utility also—it’s pressing the Command key that hides the load icon

Mike Witherell

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Let me switch over to my MacBook Pro and try it...

Mike Witherell

Author

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Snagit wont do it. Snipping Tool wont do it. Greenshot sorta does; but doesnt do it...

Mike Witherell

James Gifford—NitroPress

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We can't really be down to using our iPhone XV pocket cameras for this, even if they do have a voice chat app. 🙂

rob day

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Hi Mike, Do you mean this?:

Mike Witherell

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Hey Rob, I'm trying to capture a loaded text cursor mouse pointer while in InDesign.

Mike Witherell

rob day

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You mean the cursor when you are placing text?

James Gifford—NitroPress

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All OS-level screenshot tools I know of tend to suppress the cursor (because, natch); only a few third-party tools I've used have an option to leave it. Even the Windows screen snipper utility suppresses the cursor.

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